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Listening skills practice: Taking notes – exercises

Listen to the conversation about taking notes and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening
skills.

Preparation: ordering
Put these words in the correct order by writing a number in the brackets.

1. brilliant (__) You (__) are (__) history. (__) at (__)

2. notes (__) from (__) are (__) today. (__) my (__) These (__)

3. copy (__) You (__) to (__) everything. (__) have (__) don’t (__)

4. to (__) You (__) the (__) have (__) write (__) words. (__) important (__)

5. your (__) test (__) Let’s (__) memory. (__)

6. copy (__) You (__) to (__) everything. (__) have (__) don’t (__)

1. Check your understanding: true or false
Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. Clare is good at history. True False

2. Clare’s notes are too long. True False

3. Mark thinks you need to write everything. True False

4. Mark draws a crown and an ‘H’ instead of ‘King Henry’. True False

5. Clare doesn’t think Mark’s idea is very good. True False

6. Mark’s way of taking notes doesn’t work for Clare. True False